The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-19


on the Pacific coast The impression prevails
In passenger circles that the A., T. e. S. F. will
not long be a locker on upon this method Of do
ing business.
Local and State Notes.
c. E. Henderson, general manager of the L.,
B. e w. returned from Hot Springs last even
ine.
j. v. Parker has been appointed division
freight and passenger agent of the Union Pa
Bifc road. with headquarters at Salt Lake City
The PENNSYLVANIA Company 10 expanding $780,
900 at Y Youngstown O.. in the erection of new
depot and construction of heavy stone masonry.
Joseph Ogesby, formerly connected with the
Bee line at this point has been appointed gen
eral agent of the Union Pacific road at Salt
Lake.
Competitors for west-bound passenger bust
ness complain that the representative of the Chi
cago & Alton in this district Is so partial to the
l., Is. 81 w.
1t ia stated that c. A. Allen, late trainm aster
on the Bes-line Indianapolis division, is to again
take the position of passenger conductor on the
j. &-St L. road.
The monster engine which hauIs the trains up
the Madison bill on the D.. M. & l. came out or
the shops rebuilt yesterday. This engine Is q
veteran in the service.
Stock cars and, in fact cars Of every descrip-
lion, are coming West loaded with anthracite
soal and coke, for which there is a great de.
mand in all directions.
The trunk lines managements are fully salts
6ed with the workings OF the interstate law. It
s the smaller roads which find hard shedding as
, result of its operations.
The Western Union yesterday com pleted the
stringng of two new wires along the l. u st. L.
road between Indianapolis and ST. Louis. they
resting on new poles the entire distance.
On nearly every Indianapolis road eight
freight trains now represent ms large a tonnage
did twelve trains Ave years ago. This IS
brought about by the use of heavier locomotives
and cars of larger capacity.
It Is stated that after taking few weeks rest.
II lat
l., St l.. &c c., will take important position
one of the lew roads now building, which is
to terminate in Kansas City.
The Ohio Falls car-works at Jeffersorville are
making extensive improvements. among other
things erecting a machine shop 80 by $50 feet in
length. The company is expanding $4,000 in
putting in improved machinery.
The output of Indiana coal mines is ow ND to
$50 cars per day; the demand would take l, 600
carloads per day. The shipments to Chicago and
the North west are becoming immense. and in
this State there is a large demand.
T. P Beerbower, who was for many years on
the Bee-line is visiting friends here. He has
just resigned position the Cairo & Vim
cennes road to accept $l75 per month position
on the ST. Louis, Arkansas & Texas road.
The l., B. & W. earned, in the first week OF
October, 500, III, which was decrease of Sc, 1856
compared with the earnings the correspond
ing week 1886 This is one of the roads that tho
interstate law unfavorably affects in business.
With the exception of four roads in the Con-
trail Traffic Association all have agreed to ad-
vance the rate on thousand mile tickets to S25
Commissioner Blanchard is laboring with the
obstinate goads to induce them to fall into line.
The Bee-line has every locomotive and car that
it command in the service. Freight traf-
fc continues heavy beyond precedent. Especial
" il this remark true its local freight bust
and through east-bound livestock move
ment
r. B. Starbuck is not to get the position of
train master on the Decline after all. General
Manager Beach being quite determined in his
policy OF filling all positions vacated from the
ranks where mon capable to fill such positions
can be found.
The project to build another bridge over the
Ohio river from Jeffersonviile to Louisville has
reached such a stage that the stock 81 description
books have been opened. 1t is to be 30 con-
ctructeo that it can be used as railroad bridge
and for Carriages and pedestrians.
Extensive improvements are being made
the j., NJ. & road this season in the way OF
rebuilding bridges and substituting stone ma
improvements the stone work is of sufficient
width to admit Of laying double track.
The directors of the Indianapolis rolling mill
have voted to place on the market $3.50, 600 OF
frst-mortgage bonds on abe new steel-rail mill
drawing per cent interest. The money to
be used partly in making further improvements
to the mill, and the rest in laying in stock.
Work is progressing rapidly on the new bridge
the Louisville, Evansville & St Louis company
is building the Wabash river at Mt. Car
mel The stone piers were completed on Satur-
day last and two spans of the bridge, which is
A very inn ortant circular was received from
Commissioner Blanchard yesterday, which
nounces that Indianapolis has been made
''in transit milling point, the road which
the billing originates adding cents per hundred
pounds to the Indianapolis rate to the seaboard.
1t is quite probable that the wholesale mer-
chants in this city will send in a protest to the
Interstate Commission against consolidating
under rate fourth and sixth classes of
freight. it would place every retail grocer
a par With the shipper of carload lots, SO far
rates are concerned.
The earnings of the Grand Rapids d Indiana
road surprising the friends of the property.
The first week in October the road earned $751;
259. an increase over the earning or the CORE
spending week in 1856 of S., 847. The earnings
since Jan. 1 run ahead of those Of the first nine
months OF 1886 S273, 1S4.
j. NJ. Buckley, at present assistant general
manager of the western division of the North
j. Odell, late assistant general manager OF the
eastern division S. X. Anslie, at present
superintendent of the Minnesota division, will,
in that case, succeed Mr.. Buckley.
General Manager Beckley is quoted as saying
the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road would
extend their track Rushville, Ind. He does
not state which road they will take for their
Cincinnati connection. On reaching Nashville
their tracks easily be made to connect with
those of the c., II. & l.. or the e., l., ST. L. d e.
Monday was the banner day in local business,
with the Bee line, the platform men in the
two city depots. loading and unloading 131 cars,
and on the hauling tracks were placed fifty
eight car loads of apples ana potatoes shipped
here from the East. Besides this there
twenty-six carloads of freight left over to I'M
load.
ID. s. Hill. general superintendent of the Lake
Erie & Western road, spent yesterday in the
city looking over matters Business all d.
visions of the system is still heavy and promises
TO be. lie says for some weeks to come. The
general officers are hoping to be able to remove
iheir headquarters here by the 18th of next
month
In spite OF the disadvantages which the Ohio
q mississippi labors under the earnings of the |
road loot up handsomely. the first week in Oc- |
tober exceeding those of the corresponding week
in 1856 81 1885, and the increase in earnings since
Jan reach the handsome sum OF $l96. sci, as |
compared with the earnings of tho first nine